- If you recognize the liturgical chanting in “The Deer Hunter”, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If your Church’s fasting laws FORBID you to eat fish on Fridays, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If you consider a 2 1/2 hour church service to be short, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If at the end of Great Lent your forehead is covered with rug burns, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If your Bishop has ever answered the telephone himself, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If your parish has a recent convert named Barsanuphius and you think nothing of it, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If your priest has legitimate offspring, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If you are still in church for 20 minutes after the priest says, “Let us depart in peace”, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If you are ever tempted to ask shopping mall Santas for their blessing, you might be an Eastern Christian.
- If the problem in your Church is nationalism rather than rationalism, you might be an Eastern Christian.
And the final reason…
- If you have ever wondered why the Pope makes the Sign of the Cross backwards, you might be an Eastern Christian.
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